Pyspatiotemporalgeom: a python library for spatiotemporal types and operations

Abstract

The Pyspatiotemporalgeom library is a pure-python library implementing spatial data types, spatiotemporal data types for moving regions, and operations to create and analyze those types. The library is available on the Python Package Index (PyPI) and has been downloaded over 18,000 times since its release. In this paper, we demonstrate mechanisms to create random spatial data and perform operations over them. We then show how to create moving regions from existing data, and demonstrate aggregate operations over moving regions.